The Pirate Bay Switches Countries

World infamous BitTorrenting site, destination of millions of free media connaisseurs and general cyber-hoodlums The Pirate Bay have moved. Again.

Logging onto The Pirate Bay will take you to www.thepiratebay.gl, indicating that they have switched their domain, previously ran from sweden under the suffix “.se” to Greenland.

This isn’t the first time The Pirate Bay has done so. They originally operated under “thepiratebay.org”, but changed to Sweden in order to avoid trouble from US. Authorities. It appears that they have now done the same thing, as techhive.com has reported that their fresh change has come under anticipation of a domain seizure from the Swedish Government. Such an act would render their website inaccessible worldwide.

Some of the biggest acts in the world affected by piracy were related to hip-hop and urban music. Drake’s single “The Motto” was the most stolen single in the US last year, and Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “Watch The Throne” was also popular amongst internet pirates.